Check



A. B. ROBINSON CHECK ArroRNEY' WITNESS:

l'atented Mar. 6, 1928.

.ALBA B. ROBINSON, OF HERKIMER, NEW YORK.

CHECK.

Application filed August 28, 1922. Serial No. 584,862.

My present invention has reference to anV improved check adapted particularly for use in transmitting small amounts in money through the mails, and has tor its primary object to provide simple means whereby the use ot postage stamps or coins in making small remittances can be avoided.

The drawing' illustrates a plan view of a check in accordance with this invention.

My improved check may be issued by a mercantile house,l baul; or, as a matter of tact, by any lirni, and is designed to avoid the necessity of a party using the same viisiting the postoitice to obtain a money draft.r The check comprises a sheetl ot' a suitable size, the same being `provided at itsends with stubs and having a central division line 2 which extends longitudinally the entire length of the checlr. @n the stub 3 at the leit hand side oit' the check above the division line 2 there is imprinted the naine ot the post oflice D, at which the check is issued, as well as the words Money strip and Present this stub at any oilice 'for redemption, while the lower halt ogt the stub, indicated by the numeral -l has imprinted thereon Redemption value indicated at the right. The upper right hand corner ot the stub atA the opposite end of the check, indicated by the numeral 5 has imprinted thereon the name ot the post oftice at which the check is payable, and below that Pay to 7 and Address The lower right hand stub, indicated by the numeral 6, has imprinted thereon the words Sent by and spaces .tor the name ot' the sender and his address. rfhe body ot the check is divided transversely into blocks or spaces 7 respectively, the said spaces being each one hundred in number, and having imprinted thereon consecutively the numerals0-l to 551.00. These blocks are centrally intersected by the division line 2, which Vline divides the said blocks into an upper series 8 and into a lower series 9.

In use, we will presume that the issuer desires to send to the party whose name is indicated on the stub 5, say the sum of $.65. He therefore folds the strip on the transverse line of the block having imprinted thereon the numeral 35 in the lower series of blocks 9, as indicated by the arrows A on the figure oi the drawing. He mails `'the right hand halt of the torn check to the party to whom the payment is to be made. The tace value ot thecheck is $1.00. The receiver of the right hand half ot the check presents the same for payment at X post oilice. rl`he postal agent will readily see by inspecting the upper block at the torn edge oi the checl; that he is to pay lout $.65, and by observing the figure in the lower block that is redeemable to the purchaser and sonder oi the check. In a like manner, the post oiiice issuing` the check will know, by

inspectinol the blocks at the torn edge of they lett hand side of the check that the party to whom it has been issued will note thatthe snm ot $.65 has been paid thereon and that the check is redeemable for Of.

course, the issuer of the checks receives a suitable remuneration therefor.

It is, or' course, to be understood that the printed mattei' on the stubs is susceptible to change.

yl-larving described the invention, I claim:

A checkliaving on its face a central dividing line and a stub at each end thereof, the stub at the upper lett handcorner of the check having imprinted thereon appropriate indicia designating a post oiilice issuing the check and instructions with respect yto its redemption at a second post ol'iice, the

lower lett hand corner having imprinted thereon ledemption value indicated at the right, the upper right hand corner having imprinted thereon the post othce at which the checlris to be cashed and instructions as to whom it is payable and having vat its lower corner appropriately designated space for the name and address of the Sender, the body of the cheolr being divided by transf verse linesinto one hundred blocks, said check having a central longitudinal line which divides the blocks into anV upper and a lower series, said upper andlower series of bloclrs having imprinted therein the consecutive designations therefor from .0l to $1.00 and the said designations being reversely arranged with respect to the upper and lower series of blocks.

In testimony whereof I amr my signature.

ALBAV B. ROBINSON. 

